Multi-reed
musician whose earliest recording appears to be 1939's Nothing but Notes, by Joe Venuti and His Orchestra.(Wayne played alto sax.)In 1949, he appeared with Louis
Armstrong and Gordon Jenkins in and went on to record with Satchmo, as well as Lena Horne and Frank Sinatra, in
the 1950s.Gordon was the
arranger and conductor on 1957's Where
Are You?,
which featured Wayne on clarinet.He also collaborated with Bob Scobey on Beauty and the Beat and eventually became a staple on The Jack Benny Show.Other artists with whom he worked
include Ella Fitgerald, Judy Garland, Billy May,
Red Nichols, and Claude Gordon's Orchestra, which was voted the top
band of Canada and the U.S. in 1959 by the American Federation of
Musicians.In 1963, he was part
of an historic radio broadcast at The Hollywood Bowl which marked the last
joint appearance by Bobby Hackett and Jack Teagarden.(It was also Jack's
next-to-last concert.He would
appear at the Monterey Jazz Festival later that year.)A CD of the broadcast was released
in 2006.Wayne also appears on
the anthologies, The Blue Angel
Club:Jazz at Pasadena '69
(Vols. 1 & 2), Blue Angel Jazz
Club:Private Jazz Party,
and Live at the Cotton Club.
